Tribal Education : New Perspectives
Contents: Preface. 1. Tribal education in India: some problems. 2. Tribal education in India: an effective pedagogy. 3. Designing special training programmes for the teachers of tribal learners: some guidelines. 4. The problems and prospects of teaching learners through their languages and scripts: the case of ‘Ol Chiki’. 5. Non-tribal culture biases in education. 6. The dominant non-tribal culture-based school and the tribal learners. 7. Non-tribal culture biases in textbooks for tribal learners. 8. English textbooks and tribal pupils. 9. Non-tribal culture biases. 10. Tribal culture as positive educational resource. 11. The tribal concept of ‘Raska’ (pleasure): implications for tribal education. 12. Tribal oral culture: implications for teaching tribal learners. 13. Teaching poems to tribal children: using tribal riddling tradition as a positive resource. 14. Some special methods of teaching: learning from tribal culture – use of chain-tales and riddles. 15. Researches and educational programmes abroad: implications for tribal education in India. 16. Researches in the schema theoretic view of reading: implications for teaching reading to tribal learners. 17. Bilingual and bicultural education in the USA: implications for tribal education in India. 18. Ethnic studies and multi-cultural education in the USA and England: implications for tribal education in India. 19. Cross-cultural training in the USA: implications for training of teachers of tribal learners. 20. Preparation of materials for tribal learners. 21. Preparing ‘readers’ for tribal adult learners: some viable topics. 22. Preparing reading materials for a proposed bilingual—bicultural education programme for the Santal students. 23. Preparing radio and TV programmes for tribals: some guidelines. 24. Designing culture-based reading materials for tribal learners: a sample text. 25. Folk-tales as effective means for improving attitudes to one’s own and others’ cultures: the case of tribal learners in India. Bibliography. Appendices. Index.
"The book is the first ever comprehensive study of tribal education in India. It deals with five major sub-themes of tribal education—general problems and their solution; non-tribal culture biases in education; tribal culture as positive educational resources; implications of researches and educational programmes abroad for tribal education in India and preparation of materials for tribal learners.
"Dr. Kundu’s first-hand experiences with the tribals and their education in India and that of the gypsies of England and the American Indians of the U.S. provide new perspectives to the subject.
"The book will be immensely useful to the syllabus and course designers, textbook writers and test-makers, teachers, teacher trainers and researchers, and to anyone concerned with tribals and their education in India." (jacket)
